New Chrome Autoplay Policy Can Affect SEO

An upcoming change in the Chrome browser may affect your site’s user experience if you have autoplaying video. Starting in January 2018, the Chrome browser will no longer allow videos to autoplay on desktop websites. This is a policy change that is intended to bring desktop website behavior in line with mobile behavior, and to minimize annoyance for desktop users.

This could affect elements on your website such as embedded YouTube videos and backgrounds that have moving elements (especially those with sound).

Chrome users comprise the majority of desktop traffic, at around 60%, according to Net Market Share.
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Google Trends Shows 2017 Eclipse Path of Totality

Rarely do we see a Google Trends geographic detail that is as cool as this one. Google Trends is showing that the number of people searching for information about the 2017 eclipse closely matches the path of totality over the United States:

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